I applaud Rebecca Cokley for the morals by which she lives. I applaud her immense successes of a career path she has chosen and I applaud Rebecca’s mother and father for teaching her that she’s just as “normal” as the next person, and made her strive for excellence in her education and prepared her for adulthood and her work for those with disabilities. I never thought of dwarfism as a disability, but as a disabled person living with several chronic bone and joint illnesses and a dysfunctional spine all that cause horrific chronic pain, I now understand why they too have suffered with disabilities. I’m of normal size, yet I was teased by school mates, beaten and bruised by a family member and had no parents to teach me the morals, but I had the most loving grandmother who took care of me from afar. It was she who taught me to think for myself, be strong against those who tried to knock me down and never give up. She’s the reason I’m still alive and when she passed some 32 years ago, I lost my best friend and advocate. Rebecca shows what a strong individual she is as a mother, wife and working professional to help others with disabilities. I loved President Obama’s views about the rights all people should have, and it’s those same people who thought he was the worst president to happen to this country since the beginning of time, yet, his morals were on target and it is quite unfortunate that the following president has no morals for anyone, disabilities or not. President Trump is doing enough damage to those of us who are disabled and living in chronic pain by not enforcing the correct actions to target the cause of so many overdose deaths by street drugs and the fake “Fentynal” that is not manufactured in this country, but are crossing those same borders from China and Mexico that he himself has allowed into this country. He’s stopping the people from crossing the borders, but not the drugs. Opioid deaths from prescriptions is at an all time low and the only deaths we are seeing are suicides by the hundreds now because our medications that are giving us any type of quality of life have been removed and death is a much better than living in excruciating pain. Like the stupidity and prejudice of those who caused emotional pain to Rebecca, President Trump’s lack of empathy and education for those of us who are disabled and live in chronic pain 24/7/365 is the same stupidity and prejudice. Instead of treating us as equals who are disabled and who are suffering in pain because he and his powers in government have taken away our rights as citizens of this country and Citizens with Disabilities Act to have medication so we could have some kind of “normal” or quality of life as any American has the right to have. By not listening to our cries for help, our outpouring of letters and petitions to the Government to rewrite its policies with the FDA and the CDC to help us get back our medications it feels like Rebecca felt during what should have been one of the happiest moments of her life when the Anesthesiologist suggested she have her tubes tied so she could no longer have children. As Americans, we should be the only people who should have the right to say what should or should not be done to or for our bodies. I applaud you Rebecca, congratulations on your third child, and I’m sure you will be as great an advocate for your children as your parents were for you. I’m proud of you for your excellent writing and fighting for your rights. As an American who is disabled, I’m fighting the government to give me a quality of life I haven’t had since I was 34 years old and I’m now 57 years old. The American government feels they are the only ones who have a right to tell me how to not have a life so I can’t walk in a store for more than 5 minutes before I have to go home because the pain is climbing up my back and walking is excruciating, and I can’t sleep because the pain is so severe, but I have nothing to help, or I’m in so much pain I can’t drive, I have to cancel doctor appointments and I have no social calendar because I don’t accept invitations that I would later have to cancel. The Americans with Disabilities Act was written to protect us, not just the selected few that the government accepts as a disability, we the disabled and live in chronic pain and cannot work are Americans too.